Whites stayed home and re-elected Obama

4:31 PM,
Dec. 9, 2012

Written by

Dick Morris

Now that all the data is in, the fundamental reason for Mitt Romney's defeat is apparent, if largely unreported. It is not just that blacks, Latinos and single women showed up in record numbers at the polls. It's that whites didn't.

The final numbers suggest that 91.6 million votes were cast by whites - 7 million less than the 98.6 million cast in 2008. Meanwhile, 16.6 million blacks voted, 300,000 more than in 2008, and 11 million Latinos voted, 1.7 million more votes than were cast by Hispanics in 2008.

We lost because whites stayed home. Particularly among the elderly, the voter turnout was ...